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He liought dfrergeth from his forth-careering Till trie far haven of his rest is won ; Where her close-nestled young his fond mate tendetb , And her upraised neck to greet his coming bendeth !
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{ After the manner of Wordsworth . * ) Ye sullen rocks and leaden-coloured clouds , Ye heavy-headed trees , that moveless stand Around the stagnant pool with weeds o ' ergrown ;
What vital power breathes from your inner works , That thus draws forth the threads of human thought , And heaves the breast with sighs ? We are not made To stand apart from aught that ' s in the world : For at some moment doth the infinite soul
Oi life and substance claim attention fixed , And , by recoil of feelings gushing- home , Wake the deep quire of memory and grief ; Or , by some hidden sympathy , attest That man with nature's every shape is kin ; Stars , stones , dead trunks—some , flame-bright flower—some , dust
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CIIAPTEU IX . Few writers , I believe , have looked with a really thinking eye on the condition of * England ' s jolly tars ; ' or when they could do bo , they have refrained from speaking what they thought , or describing that which they saw . Were common sailors to write , truly ana thinkingly , for themselves , oh ! their drama would be a very gloomy one , L ) ibdin ' s flashy songs notwithstanding" : € How much is the nation indebted to Dibdin !'—so fools think . Truth
would have presented a different and a disgusting picture ; and those really energetic and powerful writers who nave given us nautical novels , with a vividness which presents all things they do paint us clearly to the eye us if we were actually engaged in or observers of them , have contrived to hedge off all matters that shall not exhibit Jack ' s condition as it affects his moral and
intellectual boing , couleur de rose . The writers are not wanting in intellectual and perhaps moral strength , but they ore deficient in moral courage . Their aim seems to be to enkindle strong excitement in the readers b y a detail of perils , difficulties , and disasters , sometimes stretched to the very verge of possibility , and
averted by something 90 wonderful that escape or rescue conies with the unexpectedness of a miracle , and the reader gaspg in sympathy with the actors and sufferers in tha recorded events ; so do I—no reader among them more eagerly and deli g htedly , I am sure . I do not accuse thest writer * of falsehood ; 1 do not say
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Autobiography ttf Pel . Verjuice , 41 fr
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEL . VERJUICE .
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< THE SECRET STRENGTH OF THINGS THAT GOVERNS THOUGHT . ' Shklliy ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/51/
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